The Lord of the Rings: Critique of the Two Chinese Translations was "a thesis submitted to the Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University" by one David van der Peet. And when he says "critique", he doesn't mean it in the wishy-washy European sense:

I was looking forward to the Chinese translations of The Lord of the Rings, and have to admit they both turned out to be a bitter disappointment, unable to bring the fascinating secondary world of Middle-earth closer to readers in Taiwan. I hope this critique will give the interested reader an idea of the sheer width of Tolkien’s imagination, and thus rekindle an interest in his works that may very well be smothered by the Chinese translations of his works so far.

The first third is scene-setting which will be of little interest to anyone already familiar with Tolkien, but the actual critique is a jungle of detail, so lush and anal that it could awaken the slumbering Comic Book Guy in anyone. There are glorious, unmistakable blooms of error, like translating the "league" of "40 leagues" as if it were the "league" of "Justice League of America"; but there are also places where I feel his case is insufficiently made, correct as it may be.

(For example, I have no reason to doubt that it is inelegant translationese to start a Taiwan-style Chinese sentence with 立即, but van der Peet's argument isn't really developed beyond "LOL 立即 AMIRITE".)

Also: Mark T. HOOKER's take on the thesis, and as a special bonus, here's self-proclaimed "sf fan, Tolkien fan, [and] dink" ITAKURA Mitsuhiro's take on the Japanese translation by SETA Teiji and TANAKA Akiko.

"Bree" is a Celtic word for "hill", but also means soup and gruel in Scottish. In the first edition of "Yubiwa Monogatari", Bree was translated as "Kayu Mura" (Gruel village), and later it was revised to katakana name "Burii Mura". There are quite a few die-hard first-editioners who refuse the revision and stick to "Kayu Mura".